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The Black Hawk vr Falcon. 
HIS Falcon or Hawk (for I take it, that thefe two Names fhould 
import the fame thing, tho’ it is ufual to give the Name of Falcon 
to^ofe of the greater Kind, and fuch only as are trained for Sport, the 
leffer Sort being generally call’d Hawks) is of the fame Magnitude with 
that immediately foregoing, and in ail Refpefts fhaped like it, excepting 
that it is a little bigger- headed in proportion to the Body : The Bill is of 
a dark Lead-colour, a little inclining to Flefli-colqur, the Skin covering 
it of the fame Colour, but a little more inclining to Yellow ; the Eye is 
of a dark Colour, with a bare Skin of a light Lead-colour round it, the 
Eyebrows overhang the Eyes, and are of a red Colour ; the upper Side 
of the Head, Neck, Back, Wings and Tail, are of a black or very 
dark, dusky Colour ; The Tips of the covert Feathers of the Wings 
and Tail are a little ruffet or redifh ; it is alfo a little redilh in the 
hinder Part of the Neck: The Ridge of the Wing in the upper Part is 
■ white ; the Quills within-fide, are marked with tranfverfe Bars of dusky 
and Clay-colour, as is the under Side of the Tail; the inner Coverts of 
the Wings are black, with round and irregular white Spots ; , the whole 
under Side is of a dirty Clay-colour, with black Spots at the Ends of 
the Feathers, in the Form exprefled in the Figure. It hath black Marks 
.from the Corners of the Mouth on each Side, extended backward in the 
form of Whiskers ; round thefe black Marks is a fmall Mixture of dusky 
White ; the Legs and Feet are of a dirty, greeniih Lead-colour, but 
inclining more to Yellow, where the Legs and Feet join ; the Soles of 
the Feet redifh, the Claws black. 
This Bird is a Native of Hudfons-Bay : It pitched on a Ship belonging 
to the Hudfons-Bay Company in Augufi 1 739, as the Ship was returning 
Home, after they had got a pretty Way through the Straits to Sea, and 
lived in London the hard Winter, 1739- I was favour’d with a 
Sight of this Bird by Taylor White, Efq; who gave me Liberty to draw 
it. Whether this and the foregoing be Male and Female, I leave to 
the Judgment of thofe v/ho underftand Natural Hiflory. 
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